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Speaker 1: From the Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey.

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Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, July eighth, twenty twenty five. Guilty. Aaron Patterson

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Speaker 1: will spend the rest of her life in jail after

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Speaker 1: being convicted of murdering three elderly relatives and attempting to

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Speaker 1: murder a fourth with deadly death cap mushrooms. She's already

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Speaker 1: been in jail for eighteen months, something the jury, which

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Speaker 1: hurt her case, didn't know before convicting her on Monday today.

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Speaker 1: Why Patterson's decision to give evidence sealed her fate. There's

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Speaker 1: a reason accused people don't usually give evidence. It's a

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Speaker 1: massive risk to take a threefold gamble that the accused

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Speaker 1: is smarter than the Crown prosecutor, capable of charming a

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Speaker 1: jury and telling the truth. In Aaron Patterson's case, none

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Speaker 1: of those were true. When Patterson's defense lawyer, Colin mac

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Speaker 1: was directly asked by the judge on May twenty.

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Speaker 2: Eight, you don't have to answer this question if you

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Speaker 2: don't want to, but is your client giving evidence?

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Speaker 3: Mandy said, I don't.

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Speaker 4: Want to answer that question, your honor.

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Speaker 1: We've used voice actors to bring you the words spoken

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Speaker 1: in court. That exchange, of course, was in the absence

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Speaker 1: of the jury, who must have been exhausted by the

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Speaker 1: constant requests for them to leave the courtroom so the

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Speaker 1: lawyers could hash something out. Mandy did call Patterson to

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Speaker 1: give evidence, maybe at her insistence, maybe out of a

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Speaker 1: rush of confidence that until that point things had been

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Speaker 1: going so well for the defense, Mandy should have quit

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Speaker 1: while he was ahead. On Monday, at two fifteen pm,

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Speaker 1: the Victorian Supreme Court, sitting at Morwell in the Latrobe Valley,

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Speaker 1: reconvened after ten weeks of trial, including seven days of

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Speaker 1: jury deliberations.

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Speaker 5: Madam four person and members of the jury, have you

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Speaker 5: agreed on your verdicts we have on the charge of

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Speaker 5: attempted murder against Ian Wilkinson. Do you find the accused

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Speaker 5: Eron Trudy Patterson guilty or not guilty guilty on the

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Speaker 5: charge of murder against Heather Wilkinson. Do you find the

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Speaker 5: accused Aaron Trudy Patterson guilty or not guilty guilty on

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Speaker 5: the charge of murder against Gail Patterson. Do you find

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Speaker 5: the accused Aaron Trudy Patterson guilty or not guilty guilty

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Speaker 5: on the charge of murder against Donald Patterson. Do you

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Speaker 5: find the accused Aaron Trudy Patterson guilty or not guilty?

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Speaker 1: Guilty? Aaron Patterson's time in the witness box was a catastrophe.

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Speaker 1: As soon as Patterson opened her mouth, her deficiencies as

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Speaker 1: a witness became clear. She began introducing ideas and theories

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Speaker 1: the jury had never heard before, not in the police

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Speaker 1: record of interview, not in Mandy's brief opening statement, not

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Speaker 1: in any of her statements to Witnes who'd previously given evidence,

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Speaker 1: like her online friends, her husband, or the various medical

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Speaker 1: professionals she spoke to at the hospital. The Crown's case

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Speaker 1: was that Erin Patterson faked a cancer scare to lure

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Speaker 1: her husband and his elderly relatives to her house in

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Speaker 1: the absence of the children for that lunch. So how

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Speaker 1: would Patterson explain this to the jury?

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Speaker 3: In pre lunch.

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Speaker 1: Text messages to Gail Patterson, the jury had already been

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Speaker 1: shown Aaron Patterson lied to her mother in law that

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Speaker 1: she was having a needle biopsy than an mri. Hi

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Speaker 1: Erin just wondering how you got on it your appointment today, Love,

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Speaker 1: Gail and Don.

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Speaker 6: Hi Gail sorry. I'd taken my daughter to see a

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Speaker 6: movie last night. We saw The Little Mermaid. The appointment

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Speaker 6: went okay, thanks for asking. I had a needle biopsy

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Speaker 6: taken of the lump and I'm returning for an MRI

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Speaker 6: next week and will know more after the results of

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Speaker 6: those two things.

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Speaker 1: In her evidence, Patterson also had to explain why the

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Speaker 1: only surviving guest, Ian Wilkinson, clearly recalled her telling the

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Speaker 1: luncheon group she believed she had Overian cancer, and then

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Speaker 1: her joining the group in a post lunch prayer led

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Speaker 1: by Ian for her safe recovery. Patison's story, presented to

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Speaker 1: the jury over three days of friendly evidence in chief

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Speaker 1: elicited by Mandy, went like this. Her real reason for

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Speaker 1: holding the lunch was that she wanted help from the

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Speaker 1: extended family with school pickups and drop offs during a

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Speaker 1: planned medical procedure, not for cancer, mind but for gastric

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Speaker 1: band surgery, something she'd resolved to do in convenience secrecy,

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Speaker 1: and was conveniently too ashamed to tell anyone the truth about.

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Speaker 1: She said she allowed the guests to think there was

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Speaker 1: a possibility of Overian cancer because she had so deeply

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Speaker 1: valued the loving concern Dawn and Gail had previously shown

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Speaker 1: for her health, so it was right at the end

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Speaker 6: Meal, and I mentioned that I'd had an issue a

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Speaker 6: ovarian cancer and had various scans related to that, and

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Speaker 6: then I'm not proud of this, but I led them

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Speaker 6: to believe that I might be needing some treatment in

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Speaker 6: regards to that in the next few weeks or months.

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Speaker 2: And do you remember what you said about that in

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Speaker 3: Not specifically.

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Speaker 6: I do remember I referred to an upcoming treatment because

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Speaker 6: primarily in my mind, I was thinking I might need

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Speaker 6: or activities, and I thought I might need to explain

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Speaker 6: or two. So that was really the focus of what

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Speaker 6: I was talking about.

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Speaker 2: Did you mislead them?

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Speaker 3: I did.

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Speaker 2: How did that conversation conclude?

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Speaker 6: They all showed a lot of compassion about that. And

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Speaker 6: then we saw Simon's car driving into the driveway coming

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Speaker 6: back with the kids, and so Ian said, why don't

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Speaker 6: we pray for Erin?

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Speaker 3: And so that's what we did.

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Speaker 2: Did you lie to them?

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Speaker 3: I did lie to them, and why.

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Speaker 2: Didn't you tell them the truth about what you were intending.

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Speaker 3: I was really embarrassed.

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Speaker 6: I was ashamed of the fact that I didn't have

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Speaker 6: control over my body or what I ate. I was

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Speaker 6: ashamed of that and embarrassed. I didn't want to tell anybody,

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Speaker 6: but I shouldn't have lied to them.

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Speaker 1: Patterson had booked a pre surgery assessment for the gastric

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Speaker 1: band she told the jury for September. Mandy didn't ask

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Speaker 1: why in July she would need to ask anyone for

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Speaker 1: help with the children at least two months into the

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Speaker 1: future for a type of minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery that

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Speaker 1: typically requires a single day's stay in hospital. And then

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Speaker 1: what Patterson clearly thought was the ace she was suffering

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Speaker 1: from bulimia and that's why she had not suffered the

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Speaker 1: ill effects of deathcap mushroom poisoning. Patterson said, after her

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Speaker 1: lunch guests went home, she polished off two thirds of

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Speaker 1: an orange cake Gail Patterson had baked.

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Speaker 6: I had a piece of cake, and then another piece

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Speaker 6: of cake, and then another.

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Speaker 2: How many pieces of cake? Did you have?

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Speaker 3: All of it?

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Speaker 1: Then she threw up, and although the court was mercifully

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Speaker 1: spared a description of exactly what was in the toilet bowl.

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Speaker 1: Patterson's implication was that she had expelled poisoned beef Wellington

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Speaker 1: along with the ex cake. When Crown prosecuted Nannett Roger's

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Speaker 1: sc probed Patterson on this, she was characteristically defensive.

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Speaker 4: Is it your evidence that the vomit was partly constituted

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Speaker 4: by the beef Wellington? Correct?

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Speaker 3: I have no idea what was in the vomit at all? Well,

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Speaker 3: it's how could I its vomit unless you can see

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Speaker 3: a bean or a piece of corn.

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Speaker 4: Well, you didn't have corn at the lunch.

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Speaker 3: That was an example.

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Speaker 4: I suggest that you did not tell a single medical

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Speaker 4: person that you had vomited after the lunch on the

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Speaker 4: afternoon of the twenty ninth of July.

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Speaker 3: That is true. I did not do that.

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Speaker 4: I suggest that that is something you would have told

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Speaker 4: them if it were true. Correct or incorrect?

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Speaker 3: Incorrect?

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Speaker 4: Do you say it's incorrect because of your embarrassment?

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Speaker 3: I say it's incorrect because it's what happened.

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Speaker 1: Coming up how Patterson's attempts to get a laugh from

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Speaker 1: the jury failed. Before entering the witness box, Patterson had

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Speaker 1: sat through the entire trial, watching from the dock. She

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Speaker 1: had observed the jovial, collegial atmosphere that emerges in long trials.

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Speaker 1: The judge, lawyers, and even some witnesses naturally become familiar

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Speaker 1: with one another, and the odd laugh emerges. When Detective

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Speaker 1: Senior Constable Stephen Epickstall was in the witness box, he

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Speaker 1: charmed the jury with apparent ease. They chuckled at his

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Speaker 1: self deprecating asides, like when he said his boss didn't

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Speaker 1: like him spending too much money.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to keep saying, ma'am. Yeah, it's a habit, sir,

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Speaker 2: your honor, we'll save time.

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Speaker 1: Patterson clearly thought she too, could get the old laugh

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Speaker 1: out of the jury. She described on the evening before

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Speaker 1: the fatal lunch trying to talk to her son and

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Speaker 1: having to lift one headphone can off his ear to

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Speaker 1: tell him something. The jury didn't laugh. She mentioned a

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Speaker 6: I drew a design myself first in Microsoft paint and

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Speaker 6: gave that to the building designer, and he said that'll

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Speaker 6: never work engineering wise. Let's move it around a bit.

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Speaker 6: But he modeled it quite closely on how I wanted

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Speaker 1: Not a chuckle. Similarly, Patterson's few moments of breathy, tearfulness

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Speaker 1: and distress seemed to fall flat. Not once did Justice

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Speaker 1: Christopher Beale offer her a break, as judges often do

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Speaker 1: when witnesses become distressed, and not once did she let

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Speaker 1: cannot believe this has happened. I haven't slept a full

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Speaker 1: night since July twenty twenty three. I will never recover

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Speaker 1: from my terrible mistake. Patterson kept her composure even when

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Speaker 1: her voice quavered. She was fully in control. It's easy

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Speaker 1: a fight with your own barrister. But Patterson then tried

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Speaker 1: to foot it with the senior Crown Prosecutor Nanett Rogers

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Speaker 1: in cross examination. Cross examination, as well as an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to elicit evidence, is also a chance for the barrister

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Speaker 1: to try and extract revelatory behavior from the witness. An

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Speaker 1: June tenth, under cross examination, she continued and you'd coolly,

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Speaker 1: insisting she could not remember ever visiting the Eye Naturalist website,

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Speaker 1: despite searches on that site for death cap mushrooms on

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Speaker 1: her computer.

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Speaker 4: Who lived in your house on the twenty eighth of

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Speaker 4: May twenty twenty.

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Speaker 3: Two, myself and my two children.

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Speaker 4: Are you suggesting it was your son?

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Speaker 3: I'm not suggesting anything.

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Speaker 4: Are you suggesting it was your daughter?

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Speaker 3: I'm not suggesting anything.

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Speaker 1: By not giving anything, Pattison gave Rogers exactly what she needed,

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Speaker 1: the same flat, calm demeanor she exhibited after poisoning her family.

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Speaker 1: Patterson's defense case was that she panicked after accidentally lacing

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Speaker 1: the food with death caps, but in the witness box

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Speaker 1: she showed she wasn't a panicer at all. She was

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Speaker 1: testy and snippy.

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Speaker 4: You knew that if you told police the truth then

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Speaker 4: you would be immediately suspected by police of being involved

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Speaker 4: in a poisoning event.

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Speaker 3: That's probably true.

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Speaker 4: Yes, I suggest that you had been dehydrating death cap

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Speaker 4: mushrooms or after the date of the purchase of the

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Speaker 4: dehydrator to put into the beef Wellington's you served your

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Speaker 4: four guests at the lunch, agree or disagree?

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Speaker 3: Can you ask that again? Please?

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Speaker 6: But before you do, I'm sorry to interrupt, but the

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Speaker 6: microphone it covers your face and it makes it hard

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Speaker 1: Bit, Another new piece of information for the jury, who'd

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Speaker 1: never heard from Patterson or anyone else that she was

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Speaker 1: hearing impaired this personicty, argumentative Patterson was very different from

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Speaker 1: the patient, devoted mother who presented herself in evidence. In chief,

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Speaker 1: she was more like the Aaron Patterson who emerged in

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Speaker 1: the Facebook messenger chats. The jury had also seen the

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Speaker 1: one who wrote.

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Speaker 3: Things like this family, I swear to fucking God.

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Speaker 1: She used eye rolling emojis to describe her reaction to

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Speaker 1: Don Patterson's suggestion she and Simon pray for God's help

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Speaker 1: tried to deny they were eye rolls, cold, snarky, to smart,

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Speaker 1: by half cynical, A liar. That's who The Crown said

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Speaker 1: Aaron Patterson really was turned out. The jury thought so too.

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Speaker 1: The Australian's own John Ferguson broke the story of these

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Speaker 1: mushroom murders way back in twenty twenty three, and along

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